General | Project assistant

The new Project Assistant allows users to define all the settings necessary for a joblist more quickly. Intuitive user guidance and automated functions make it easier to create a joblist.

Benefit: Simple and fast joblist creation.

Smooth overlap

The new ‘Smooth overlap’ function optimizes the surface quality in transition areas during slope-dependent machining. Slope boundaries are more precise, and perfect surface blends are achieved at slope boundaries or rest machining boundaries are improved by lifting the tool slightly.

This function is supported in the following strategies:

3D Profile Finishing

3D Z Level Finishing

3D Complete Finishing

3D Z Level Shape Finishing

3D Automatic Rest Machining

5X Rest Machining

Benefit: Improved surface quality.

3D Optimized Roughing

Two new functions are available for adaptive pocket machining:

With the ‘High feed machining’ option, the lateral infeed can be automatically calculated by defining a scallop height. Special movements have been implemented to avoid rest material in corners when there is a very high lateral infeed.

Benefit: High degree of user-friendliness when using high feed machining with high feed cutter.

3-axis simultaneous Turning

Two new strategies for simultaneous machining* enable even more efficient mill turning. Complex workpiece geometries can be machined in a single job step by simultaneously adapting the approach angle during the turning operation. Here, synchronization lines can be used to set the movement sequence of the pivoting axis. The simultaneous movement of the third axis is calculated automatically between two synchronization lines.

Roughing: The innovative approach, which involves using a simultaneous pivoting axis during rouging, offers the user many benefits. The varying tool orientation ensures that the insert is optimally utilized and also helps to extend the tool life.

Finishing: The simultaneous movement of the pivoting axis allows complex contours to be finished in a single job step. This means tool changes and mismatches can be avoided due to a limitation of the accessibility and visible edges.

Highly efficient turning: Turning has never been faster!

Thanks to the innovative rollFEED cutting inserts from Vandurit for lathes and the perfectly adapted hyperMILL rollFEED Turning strategy*, flawless workpiece contours can be achieved in no time at all.

How the process worksThis unique turning operation involves rolling the tool insert on a workpiece surface of any shape. The cutting movement is produced by a horizontal swivelling of the pivoting axis with simultaneous compensation for the X and Z axes.

Machining grooves with a single toolWhen grooves are machined, the strategy automatically guides the tool from the first to the second plane level via the cylinder face. This way, grooves can be machined with high efficiency with a single tool in a single movement and thanks to the combination of roll and turn movements, even workpieces with large radii can be machined reliably.

*Note: hyperMILL rollFEED Turning requires an adapted postprocessor.

Features

Highly efficient process

Generates perfectly finished surfaces free of twists

Simple to program

Fewer tool changes

Undercuts can be integrated into rolling movement

Mill-turn machines with a pivoting axis only require the rollFEED holder and inserts.

OPEN MIND has developed hyperMILL VIRTUAL Machining* to evaluate, control and optimize machining processes more reliably. This highly efficient simulation solution consists of three modules: Center, Optimizer and CONNECTED Machining.

Increased safety in simulationsActual machining situations, that is, the machine including controller and PLC, are mapped virtually and simulated based on the NC code in the hyperMILL VIRTUAL Machining Center. All processes are transparent to the user, and can be analyzed in detail. Real-world machine collisions that can cause costly machine damage, production downtime and thereby critical delays, are avoided.

Greater efficiency thanks to a new generation of postprocessorsPostprocessor technology* has also been significantly further developed with the hyperMILL VIRTUAL Machining simulation solution, and supplemented with many innovative functionalities. For instance, bidirectional linking is now possible between the NC program and the machining information from hyperMILL. By means of this connection the respective hyperMILL job can be assigned to the NC Code.